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DeSantis just vetoed state funding for theaters and museums
The Coral Gables Art Cinema will be short more than $100,000 this year. About $150,000 has suddenly disappeared from the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra’s budget…
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How edgy gay 80s artist Keith Haring became a Gen Z fast fashion icon
Nora Noble was about 20 when a shirt caught their eye. While working at a New York arts camp, Noble noticed a coworker sporting a tee with cartoon-like rainbow figures merrily grooving in a line…
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Gay gaze? Hidden clues reveal the sexuality of old masters
The naked truth is hanging on every wall, clear to see in every picture. In drawings, etchings and prints, but also in three dimensional forms, made of bronze, marble or…
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American Gothic, a coded window into Grant Wood’s gay life
When you talk about the painter of American Gothic, Grant Wood (1891–1942) it’s easy to buy into the irresistible image he created of a homespun artist of rural America. But, just as in his archetypal painting, there’s much more than…
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‘The Letter Men’ details love letters between two men separated by WWII
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time,” Gordon Bowsher wrote during the harrowing days of World War II. “Then all the world could see how in love we are.”…
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Keith Haring’s personal collection up for bids to benefit LGBT group.
In collaboration with the Keith Haring Foundation, Sotheby’s will auction more than 140 works from the artist’s personal collection in an online sale this fall. Works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, Tseng Kwong Chi, and George Condo, among others…
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Keith Haring: The life and joyful work of the gay pop artist.
In June 1986, a now-famous photograph was taken of a group of young people out on the town in New York. These were not your everyday revellers, but some of the greatest innovators and creative upstarts of the era, all miraculously…